Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 21:32:33 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Desktop vs Server (Was: Re: From Slashdot...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901312132000.374-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19990131190335.J16540@futuresouth.com>
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On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 04:33:49PM -0800, a little birdie told me
> that Jordan K. Hubbard remarked
> >
> > Everyone talks about how nice desktop support would be but nobody DOES
> > anything and, as a result, every initiative to support the desktop
> > more seriously in FreeBSD has been a dead loss. The desktop contest
> > went down without so much as a single decent entry, XiG sold about 3
>
> Well, I DID look through the rules etc for that... but I couldn't see
> how I would package as a 'theme' my beautiful clean efficient flexible
> TWM setup (even now, with it's spiffy new perl backend)...
>
> And yes, I DO pop up a lot of xterms.
> 7:03PM up 31 days, 20:07, 53 users, load averages: 0.29, 0.28, 0.33
Ouch, I thought i was bad:
> uptime
9:31PM up 46 days, 11:41, 36 users, load averages: 1.03, 1.01, 1.00
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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